You'll own nothing and like it.

Communists want to abolish private property.

Capitalists want to abolish personal property.

We are not the same.

God this feels like such a no-brainer
Just gotta keep dumbing it down I guess
- The personal property / private property distinction really confuses some people for some reason. Granted, there are also a lot of people who are just assholes and act like clarifying the usage of the terms is just you trying to be "evasive" (I've gotten that response).
Dude, I am SO going to use this.

I want people to own nothing because everything should be held in common for the public good

You want people to own nothing so that you can charge rent forever

We are not the same. Now face the wall

We want to collectively own and manage the means of production to our benefit as a whole. Personal property is just that, and it's yours. I like the vibe of this comment, anyhow. Lol

This is the best argument for piracy.

I'd even say you can get to a pretty strong argument that it's morally justifiable.

Why is it any better for them to take something from you that you've already paid for then for you to take something you didn't pay for.

I'd say stuff like this makes you morally obligated to pirate
Why is it any better for them to take something from you that you've already paid for then for you to take something you didn't pay for.
Why is it any better for them to take something from you that you've already paid for then for you to take something you didn't pay for.
Well you see they're a giant corporation so they have rights and you don't!
- Oh fully agree nobody should have to justify stealing from corporations it's just hilarious that even the biggest bootlicking civility fetishist would have a hard time scolding somebody for this when the corporations are doing something worse by any objective observation.

this is why I still buy discs

Uh... I would simply pirate the content wholesale.

Buy discs, rip the contents, seed torrents to share with comrades worldwide (please do this, I just want a HQ copy of Footfalls from the Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker soundtrack but I can't find it anywhere)
- Here you go comrade
  https://file.io/zcYWOkckRyM4
Somebody has to buy them to get the best quality rips.
I worry that if they stop selling Blu-Rays, there will be literally no way to get media in full uncompressed (minimally compressed? idk, just whatever makes Blu-Rays need like 50 GB) quality. No more BD Remuxes, just shitty WEBRips and maybe some WEB-DLs
- do purchased digital movies have high quality? Like the ones in the screenshot? Or on iTunes? zdon't they have 4k digital movies?
- https://tidal.com/sound-quality
  That's just one place to get HQ music. It's not exactly what you're looking for, but it's part of the solution.
Why not shoplift the discs and get the best of both worlds
- If I was a big more ballsy, I might.
Pirates don’t get the special features, commentary, or fun 35 seconds long looping menu music.
- Pirates don’t get the special features, commentary
  Hey some of them include those as extras!
  or fun 35 seconds long looping menu music
  okay true :sadness:
- The torrent uploader Tigole (from the release group QxR) usually includes special features and commentaries on their torrents. HeVK, who uploads a lot of great horror films, includes commentaries as well.

Daily reminder that staring at a blank wall while your internal monologue slowly descends into gibbering madness remains free!*

*Blank wall sold separately

Also it better be a privately owned wall or else a cops gonna harass you for loitering.
Cant be just standing around in public not spending money

Digital piracy is 100% always the morally correct thing to do.

Piracy is praxis

More people should learn computer literacy and how to pirate. The majority mostly buy old media over pirating because they don't have the skills to pirate. Bootlegs are huge in my country because of this.

Skills to pirate? I guess there is a certain level of know-how to avoid getting viruses
- I've seen people struggle to do the most basic functions with their computer. They're absolutely skills to them.
- It’s also easy to scare computer illiterates into being to afraid to pirate

"We sincerely thank you for your continued support"

I know it's not the main thing to take issue with. But the insincerity of those 'sincere thanks' pisses me off to no end. Like they magically found a way to claim we support them by saying so. Don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining, at least be upfront about fucking me over.

I always fume with anger when some website captions their cookie banner "We care about your privacy". No you fucking don't and the dialog where you have to manually uncheck 10+ individual cookie types and also their fucking"legitimate interest" (no, there isn't any legitimate interest about my data).
And also when some company whose only purpose is to make money sends me e-mails beginning with "Hello, ". We aren't friends, we are business partners. If I'll write you about let's say a RMA, I won't address you "David" either. Keep it professional, will ya, ya smeee-heeee.
- You see, there's just no possible way to show you these five paragraphs of plain text without seventeen tracking cookies attached
It's some "X rules to be an effective Y" bullshit. "Don't say 'sorry for taking your time' say 'thank you for your patience'"
Translation: "Fuck all of you who leave over this"

Class action popcorn time

I'm interested to see where the courts land on the enforcibility of the terms and conditions stipulated at time of purchase. Should be interesting. For example, the purchase of the media is no doubt framed as a type of ownership given that you "buy" the item but no doubt it stipulated that your usage of purchased content is contingent upon a vast array of terms and conditions agreed to at time of purchase.

I still remember when I read the terms and conditions for my ps3 and discovered that I'm only renting it rather than own it; I don't own emulators either but at least those are free

I still remember when I read the terms and conditions for my ps3 and discovered that I'm only renting it rather than own it
holy shit

Your device> HDMI cable> £10 HDCP bypass box >HDMI cable> your recording/capture device. You've paid for it, you might as well make a copy. You will have to watch it through though to copy.

David Zaslav and his consequences

It never was stealing to begin with.

this feeels like a lawsuit; shouldnt sony or discovery issue refunds because of this.

I fucking hope there's a lawsuit. They're probably leaning on some understanding that by agreeing to their ToS, you agree that you don't own any of your content. But i feel like that also betrays the common person's understanding of how digital content works, or at least how it should work. Basically anything you cant download DRM-free and back up yourself is subject to disappear at any time.
- if only. no sane lawyer will take on sony, especially when the TOS explicitly says you don't own your content.

I still buy films in bluray!

I love pirating but sometimes it makes sense to buy. I've had it happen where I torrent something niche and then many years later the file gets corrupted or lost and now no one is torrenting anymore or it takes weeks/months to download. But I do still buy games digitally, unless it's a special game I want to keep. I just don't really game as hard anymore so I don't really care.